24 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vou 71 



COCCOPHAGUS GOSSYPARIAE, new species 



Coccophagus gossypariae (Howard MS.) Herbert, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. No. 

 1223, 1925, p. 12. 



Apparently close to scutellaris Dalman, but differs by having the 

 scutellum entirely black. Readily distinguished from the other spe- 

 cies known to the writer by the color of the legs. 



Female. — Length, 1.2 mm. Antennae moderately long; first funi- 

 cle joint distinctly longer than pedicel and very slightly longer than 

 second funicle joint; second and third subequal or the third some- 

 what shorter, the latter one and one-half to two times as long as 

 thick; club approximately equal in length to the second and third 

 funicle joints combined, and sHghtly thicker than the funicle; frons 

 strongly punctato-rugulose; cheeks distinctly reticulated. Thorax 

 rather robust; mesoscutum, scutellum, and axillae weakly reticulated, 

 subopaque or only slightly shining and sparsely clothed with fine 

 hairs, the scutellar bristles weak, only the apical pair being conspic- 

 uous; propodeura nearly smooth; marginal and submarginal veins 

 nearly equal; marginal cilia of forewings short; abdomen as long as 

 thorax and nearly smooth. Head, thorax and abdomen black; an- 

 tennae entirely blackish browni; vertex laterad of oceUi marked with 

 a brownish spot; anterior legs entirely, median pair except coxae 

 basally, posterior coxae at extreme apex, hind trochanters and their 

 tibiae pale yellow; base of middle coxae, hind coxae except at apex, 

 and hind femora black; tarsi more or less infuscated apically; wings 

 hyahne, venation dark brown. 



Type locality. — Ithaca, New York. 



Type.— C&t. No. 29449, U.S.N.M. 



Described from fifteen females received from Miss Grace Griswold, 

 of Cornell University, said to have been reared from Gossyparia spu- 

 ria at Ithaca, New York, and three females labelled "from Gossyparia 

 ulmi, Bedford, Massachusetts, June 15, 1898." The three last men- 

 tioned specimens were found in the collection under the name " Coc- 

 cophagus gossypariae Howard MS.," and this name has been adopted 

 for the species. 



The color of this species seems to be somewhat variable. In the 

 three specimens from Massachusetts the whole frons and face is dark 

 reddish brown instead of black as in the type. In some individuals 

 tlie front coxae are slightly infuscated at base and the middle coxae 

 mostly black; in others the middle as well as the front coxae are 

 almost wholly pale and the hind coxae in large part also pale. In 

 spite of these color differences they all seem to be the same species. 



COCCOPHAGUS LECANII Filch 



Coccophagus coccidis Girault, Descriptiones Stellarum Novarum, 1917, p. 2. 

 Coccophagus cowpcri Girault, Descriptiones Stellarum Novarum, 1917, p. 1. 



